The Story of the Moor Monster

Author: Longhorn Council

The entire audiences at your pack meeting will enjoy this group participationstunt.

When you hear the names HARRY or HARPER in this story, you CLAP once.CLAP TWICE when you hear the word MONSTER or the word MOOR Stampboth feet, one after the other, when you hear the words MOOR MONSTER Makea noise like a dog when you hear the name of Harry’s dog, ROVER.

The scene is laid in England.

HARRY HARPER was an English Cub Scout (they call themselves Wolf Cubs)who lived with his Mother, Father, and his dog, RovE_R near an English MOORHARRY was working on his Bear badge and needed a few more rocks tocomplete the last achievement for his badge.

One afternoon after HARRY HARPER got home from school, he said to hisMother, “Mother, I think ROVER and I will go out on the MOOR and look for afew more rock samples.” “All right,” said his Mother. “Be careful you don’t fall andcut yourself on the rock of the MOOR, and be sure you come home in time forsupper. ” “Yes, Mother,” said HARRY, “Come, ROVER let’s go look for somerocks.”

So HARRY headed off onto the MOOR with ROVER running beside him.HARRY went toward a huge rock formation in the middle of the MOOR He hadalways wanted to climb to the top, and today he had brought a rope with him.When he got near the top, as he had done many times before, he tied one end ofthe rope around a small rock, and tossed it around a big projecting rock, and itcame back to where he was standing.

“You stay here, ROVER,” said HARRY and he climbed up the rock. Across thestream and a short distance back was a cave HARRY had never seen before,hidden behind a grove of trees and bushes.

HARRY HARPER and ROVER stood still, watching wide-eyed as a MONSTERof the MOOR came through the trees. The boy and the dog turned and ran.

First was ROVER followed closely by HARRY HARPER and at a distance camethe MOOR MONSTER. ROVER was across the stream in three leaps, HARRYdidn’t bother walking across the rocks, he ran right through the water and headedfor home. The MOOR MONSTER stopped at the stream!

“Bosh,” said the old Hermit, “I just wanted to- ask him if the fishing was any goodin the stream.”

So, we ring down the curtain on the story of HARRY HARPER, his dog ROVER,and the not-so-terrible MOOR MONSTER.